Located between the Pacific Ocean and downtown Los Angeles, Loyola Marymount University is a comprehensive university offering 60 major programs, 55 minor undergraduate degrees and programs. The Graduate Division offers 39 master’s degree programs and one education doctorate, one juris doctorate and 10 credential programs. 
 
Founded in 1911, LMU is ranked third in “Best Regional Universities (West)” by U.S. News and World Report. LMU is the largest Jesuit Catholic university for undergraduates on the West Coast, with more than 6,000 undergraduate students and more than 3,000 graduate and law students. The state-of-the-art The William H. Hannon Library rates among the 20 best in the country according to The Princeton Review’s guide to “The Best 378 Colleges,” 2014. Bloomberg Businessweek ranks LMU sixth in the nation and third in the West in its 2013 Part-Time MBA rankings.

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Delmy Ruíz is an instructor and program associate for Mantener el Camino and BA Equivalency Pathway in the Center for Religion and Spirituality. Formerly an administrator in the LMU School of Education, she brings her expertise in academic counseling and administration to her work here the Center.

In the LMU School of Education, Ms. Ruíz was assistant director of the Center for Catholic Education from 2017 to 2020, managed the Catholic Archdiocesan School Teachers (CAST), and served as an academic advisor to both CAST and Partners in Los Angeles Catholic Education (PLACE Corps) students from 2014 to 2017. She was a research associate on various research projects for the Center for Catholic Education.

Ms. Ruíz is a former member of the LMU School of Education Alumni Association Board, and mentor in LMU's First-to-Go program. She earned her bachelor's degree in Sociology and Chicano/Latino Studies from the University of California at Irvine, and her master's degree in Counseling and Pupil Personnel Services Credential from LMU.

Delmy Ruíz

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Loyola Marymount University

Loyola Marymount University

University of California at Irvine

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